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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1905.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1905,
HOUSE ACCOMMODATION IN-
HONGKONG.
LOCAL AND GENERAL:
THE 931d Burma Infantry and rolls Mahraits Light Infantry will embark on board the R.I.M.S. Harding 10.50 a.m. to-morrow, commencing with the froth Mobralia Light Infantry.
THE ALLEGED BMBEZZLEMENT, KUROPKAN ACCOMMODATION | TELEGRAMS.
BY A TERNMENT CLERK,
"VIN HONGKONG,
HOTELS V. PRIVATE RESIDENCES.
The case in which Tang Fuk, Coroner's clark and third clerk at the Magistracy, was charged;
As mentioned in our issue last evening mem with the embezzlement of So, under circumbers of the Sanitary Board were engaged ar stances already recorded in these columns, was resumed before Mr. F.A. Hareland this morning, Mr. G. E. Morell, of Messrs. Dennys and Looker, of Measts. Deacon, Looker and Deacor. Bowley's office prosecuted, and Mr. H. W.
defended, and 4r.J. H. Hanson, Chief Inspector of Detectives, watched the case on behalf of the Police
We believe it to be a principle well-eleven years the Chaplain for Hongkong Har THE Rev. A. Gurney Goldsmith, MA, for recognised and put into practice in all bour, and subsequently, from 1896, Vicar of Parliamentary assemblies that where indivi- Appledore, North Devon, has resigned that dual interests may be affected by any ques. Vicarage, to devote himself to the new Cha tion at issue before the meeting that the plaincy for the shipping at Melbourne, în As the witnesses had not put in an appear person having such interest abstain from Australia. He hoped to sail for that port qnance, Mr. Morell asked for a short adjournment,
and this was granted until 11.15 a.. voting or taking part in the discussion. This 26th ins'. is a matter that has, on and off, been brought.
On tesoming, Mr. C. D.. Melbourne, re-
THE marriage took place on 27th ult, at Holy examined by Mr. Marell, said that on the Trinity Church, London, of Captain Francis morning of the 5th of April he checked the Douglas Farquhar, D.5.0, Coldstream Guards cash books, in the presence of the defendunt. only surviving son of Sir Henry Farquhar, of. He held the cash book, and defendant read Gilmiinscroft, Mauchline, and nephew of Vis out the details of the cases, and mentioned Count Hampden, and Lady Evelyn Hely. whether the defendants; in those cases paid Hutchinson, elder daughter of the late Earf of the fines or went to gnot. All tip entries Donoughmore, and sister of the present Peer,
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up at the Legislative Council and members bave on several occasions pot recorded their votes when such matters, have cropped up wherein their interests appear to be at stake. At a meeting of the Sanitery Board yester day afternoon the question of the alteration of the Hongkong Hotel was brought up for discussion in connection with certain plans submitted by The Hotel Company's.
LEUNG I and Leong Hing. were placed before architects' for the rebuilding of their original M. F. A. Hazeland this morning, charged with premises overlooking Queen's Road Central. killing fish with explosives, at Kowloon City One of the unofficial members in a minute on the joth inst. They were fined $30 each. strongly opposed the application for a Leung 1. was further charged with carrying certain modification of the Public Health dynamite, fuses, and detonators, without have and Buildings Ordinance, and supporting the same labelled "dangerous," He had ed his written views in the debate in to pay a further fine of 515; or do three weeks' the Board room. We do not imply that the imprisonment. member was retuated by any other motive than that of the service of the public interest in formulating his opposition to Messrs. Palmer and Turner's application on behalf of their clients. The Sanitary Board given discretionary powers to limit the height of buildings in Hongkong in accord ance with their views, and it appeared that the gentleman in question was not for a modification of the Ordinance in order to enable the old block of the Hotel ta be re-
built in accordance with the plays submit ted which support an application that the building might attain a height of 104 feet, or
LEAVE of absence on private affairs to the neighbouring countries has been granted to Captain R. V. C. Tullach and and Lieutenant H. W. Graham, and Royal West Kent Regi-, ment, from to-day to 25th July, 1925, also to Captain J. T. Johnsen, Koyal Army Medical Corps, from and June to 1st August, 1995, and to Major C. S. Sparkes, Royal Army Medical Corps, from 31st May to 31st August, 1905.
consecutive
tallied with what he read. Witness had been Chief Clerk at the Magistracy since April, 1900. The system of auditing the accounts all the depositions for two was for the former local auditor to go through menths, and then for the next two or three months he would make a test audit, without seeing all the depositions, selecting, perhaps, only two or three cases out of every twenty, Under that system perhaps it would have been possible for money to have been received and not entered in the cashbook, and the fact to have escaped detection. On the 4th April the total of fines received as entered by the shroff was Sig:85. The 550 in question was not included in that amount,
Cross-examined by Mr. Looker: The shroff made up his cash-book every evening when the Magistrates rise, and when he had finished
Official Telegrams.]
THE NAVAL BATTLE.
RUSSIAN ADMIRAL A PRISONER
their meeting yesterday in discussing an im portant application for a modification of the
The question, as shown in the letter and mi- requirements of a section of the Public Health COMPLETION OF JAPAN'S VICTORY. Bill in respect of the Hongkong Hotel premises, nules printed in our issue of last evening, wal whether or not the new Hongkong Hotel shall be allowed to exceed 76 feet in height, and upon this point an interesting discussion ensued.
The Hon. Dr. Francis Clark (resident of the Board) painted out that, although it had not been customary to limit buildings in the
neighbourhood of the Hotel to a height
of
AND HEYERELY WOUNDED..
Tokio, 30th May, 7.45 pm, (received 4.50a.m., 31st).
Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, has
76 feet, it was within the power of the Board kindly forwarded to us the following tele
The fifth report from Admint Togo, to do so and with regard to Mr. Rumjahn's ques grams tion as to whether there is greater demand for houses than supply, the President explained. that, in his original minute, he meant houses received on the afternoon of the 30th in- within the means of the people to whom hestant, states that the main force of our com was referring. A glance through the news bined fleet, upon accepting the surrender of
papers, he said, will convince anyone that the hotels are filled with young people of incomes between $1,007 10 $5,000 per year, and whe cannot afford to pay $2,000 or more per year. for a house. In other words, he contended there were no houses available in the Colony within their means, and that was why they went to the hotels.
Replying to Mr. Pollock, the President said the building in question was a reconstruction of the Hongkong Hotel looking over Queen's Road, and extending from that thoroughfare to half-way down Pedder Street. It was proposed
to make it the same height as what was called
the new building at the front, and the ad- ditional height would represent a storey and
a half.
the remaining Russian main force near Liancourt Rocks, on the afternoon of the 28th instant, as already reported, stopped the pursuit and, while engaged in the disposition. of the surrendered ships, found in the south- western direction a coast-defence ship, the. Admiral Oushakoj.
Thereupon the fate and Yahime were immediately despatched to pursue and invited her to surrender; but the invitation being refused they sank her at 6 p.m. and rescued her remaining crew of over 300
men.
The cruiser Dmitri Donsko was also
tion and was immediately overtaken and found at 5 p.m. in the north-western direc-
fired upon vigorously by our Fourth Divi- sion and the second destroyer flotilla. She was attacked at night by the second des. troyer flotilla and found on the next mom
some 28 feet in excess of the limit prescribed outbreak of plague in Hongkong, it has been made up his accounts and gone for the day, it commodating European visitors. As regards ing aground at the south-eastern shore of
for the highest building under the Ordin- “DE AND "E" ARE FAVOURITE ance. Alongst the reasons assigned by the speaker in opposition were that by increas WINES ALL OVER THE FAR EAST, ing the height of the building still more AND ARE SPECIALLY RECOMight would be shut off from the offices
MENDED.
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LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 20th May, 15,
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HONGKONG,
34. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
The Colonial ecretary has received the fat lowing communication dated 11th May, 1905, from the Secretary to Government of Bengal: I am directed to state, for your information, that istimation having been received of the
declared to be infected, and the regulations, for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea, issued by this Government will be enforced in the ports of Osissa and Chittagong against vessels arriving from that place.
AN extract has been published from a letter criticising Capt. Clado. The Admiral says written by Admiral Rojestvensky, scathingly that the methods proposed by that officer for carrying on Naval operations against the Japanese are chimerical. "The Japanese, proceeds the Admiral, will profit by Capt. Clado's request for a court-martial, because they will then see what represents the highest intelligence of the Russian Navy, and they will be gind to know that they have only to deal with such elements.”
He mentioned that, at the present time, one hotel, the Hotel America, had been closed," while a private hosel, or boarding house, in Pedder Street, had also been closed for want of business, and there were other private hotels which had more rooms available for ac-
the application, however, he thought it would be remembered that some weeks ago an ap plication for a five-storey hotel fronting on Robinson Road, Kowloun, came before the Board. That road was too feet wide, and the Board refused the application on the ground that the bright would obscure the light from the surrounding buildings, with sight to conduce to surface-crowding. The present
was for the erection application
Urieung Island off the Korean coast,
that his duties for the day were concluded, and
Mr. Rumjahn, however, did not share the same views as Dr. Clark and maintained that he was at liberty to go. The next morning the chief clerk and third clerk go throughdation for Europeans is required is wrong. the President's contention that more accommo. the cases and the big cash-back, in see whether the entries of the amount, of files received by the shroff are correct. That is done with the object of checking the shroff's receipts, and if a prisoner has gone to gaul, it is the duty of the third clerk to read out that fact. If a fine is received after the throff has
has been the prac ise tolenter it as received on the following day, Witness here explained that it would be entered in the cash-book on the following day, but a note would be made as to its having been received on the previous day, In these cases when checking the accounts, when no fine is entered the third clerk reads out that the prisoner has gone to gaol, but as a rule he would also say if the fine was after wards paid. This was not always done. The entries being made on the following day are to building of tos feet in height, abutting on avoid the previous day's account being kept Queen's Road, which was so feet wide on open. On the occasion in question the defend. paper; or, in reality, 30 feet wide, because on ant read outprisoner gane to gagl," but wit. both sides of Queen's Road there were veran soners, ness did not remember whether he afterwards dahs obstructing, so that, practically, the * Our cruiser Chitose, while cruising north- said the prisoner paid the fine later, At the height abutting on Queen's Road would be time of checking the accounts, witness said, he three times the actual width of Queen's Road. ward, on the morning of the 28th Instant, himself must have i nown that the $so had been As regards the width of Pedder, Street, which found and sank another Russian destroyer. paid afterwards. If a prisoner pays his fine a is put down as.73 feet, the building would be receipt is taken out of one of the books, and the raised one and a half times the width of that counterfoil would show it. The third clerk has street, or more than four storeys, with the frequently received payment of fines after the sanction of the Board. He argued that as a shroff has gone, and in those cases it in his building five storeys high would naturally take duty to hand it to the shroff as soon as pos off much light from the surrounding buildings, sible, or to the chief clerk, if present. If there and as they were asked to allow an 'infringe-
Our destroyer Sazonami captured, toward the evening of the 27th instant, south of Urieung Island, the Russian destroyer Biedovy wherein were found Admiral Rod. jestvensky and another Admini, both severely wounded, together with 80 Rus- of asians, including the staff officers from the Flagship Knias Suparoff which was sunk on the 27th instant; they were all taken as pri
in Queen's Road, and that the demand for the accommodation of Europeans in the Colony was not in excess of the supply, a point which he argued was disproved by the recent closing of a hotel and a boarding house. They were asked, he said, to allow an infringement of the Ordinance and close their eyes to injury to surrounding buildings. | How the speaker can be supported in his [32 statement that the provision of house ac commodation for the European class is in excess of the demand anyoneal all acquainted with the Colony will be at a loss to discover. It is a notorious fact that houses for THE case against Captain Lawlor, licensed Europeans in Hongkong are becoming pilot, for negligent navigation in the waters of
this harbour, whereby the $.5. Slavonių sustain more and mure scarce thus permitting certain damage by colliding against No. 2 of that steady and ever-increasing apprecia-whaif, Kowloon, was resumed before Mr. F. A. tion in the rents which has earned for Hong Hazeland this afternoon. Mr. H. W. Locker, is nobody elsa present, he is at liberty to keep ment of a part of the Ordinance and close their received and statements of the prisoners the of Messrs. Deacon, Lonker and Deacon, spit in his drawer and hand it over to the shroff eyes as to the injury done to the surrounding result of the battle of the 27th to a8th inst.
cause
kong the unique distinction of being perhaps the inast expensive Colony in the East in the peared for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkinson, the next morning. The defendant joined as question of house rents. He cites the columns of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, far the defence. of the local Press to bear out the state- Upon the case being called on His Worship nient that a number of vacant houses are announced that as Mr. Hasil Taylor, assessor, available on the Island for European accom.was unable to attend to-day the case must be modation, but he fails to attribute the adjourned sine díc. Adjourned accordingly, reason why such houses are vacant. There
SHAIK Laginat, a private of the Bombay L. I., SPIRIT MERCHANTS, may be a lurking suspicion that if the true
was charged at the instance of Inspector is revealed it may be found that Lang'ey, with the theft of $45, the property either the rental exacted by the landlords of a comrade in the same regiment at Esim is in excess of prospective lessons' ideas of Tsa Tsui, on the 30th inst. It was stated that the premises worth, or that those residences the defendant was watching a gambling game are situated in such a locality as might on the reclamation ground in which com- have earned a notoriety for insalubrity.plainant was participating, and seeing the com One of the reasons assigned for the build plainant place his wininngs by his side de-
fendant helped himself to a $; note. Com ing of the new tramway to the Peak is that a plainant asked for its return, but defendant greater building area might be rendered ac denied possession, and a free fight ensued cessible for the accommodation of the Euro- during which the gamblers vanished. It is pean inhabitants of the Island. That does then alleged that the defendant knocked com- not show that the supply of houses is in plinant down, and lank another $10 irum excess of our present or future requirements, and was making off with it when he was The steady influx of Europeans into the seized by a lutong, who took him to the Tsim Colony all tend to prove that, if anything, Tsa Tsui Station, where he was searched in Hongkong stands in need of greater housing the presence of Inspector Langley and the accommodation and that time is being taken money fouad. M. G. Orme, who tried the by the forelock by those whose business it is case, sentenced Shaik to one month's hard impossible for things to have gone on smoothly and agreed with the M 0.4. that, although.
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WRITING on the banking and the custom of settling up all accounts (sometimes by a mers
shifting from one set of shoulders to another), Mr. George E. Anderson, U.S. Consul at Hangchow, says the real trouble is that there
Our cruiser Niitaka and the destroyer Afurakume attacked, also at noon of the 28th instant, a Russian destroyer which finally went aground.
According to various reports hitherto
Kniaz Suvarof, Alexander 111, Borodino, Dmited Donskoi, Admiral Nuchimof, Viauli mir Mononach, Zentchug, Adiniral Oushakoff, one converted cruiser and, two destroyers were sunk; and Nicholas L., Orel, Admiral Apraxin, Admiral Seakavin and the destroyer Dindory were captured.
buildings by the extra height of the proposed is as followe clerk at the Magistracy, as third clerk, in May premises the application as far as the height 1994, but there was no entry to show when he of the building was.concerned, should be re- first joined. Witness thought it was in 1900. fused. He moved a resolution to that effect. Dr. W. W. Fearse, M.Q.H., was struck by It has frequently happened that defendant's work has kept him in office later than anythe fact that the designers were very careful one else.
Since he had been third clerk not to show a front door in Queen's Road there had been many occasions on which Consequently, it was said that the hotel is not defendant had received money and paid it in fronting on Queen's Road: That, he thought, was a cute way of shuffling out of the difficulty, to the shroff the following morning, but he could not say how many times. Since defend although, for sanitary purposes, the building ant joined the Magisterial staff witness should does front on Queen's Read. A second point According to the statement of the prison. was that, although the Inw had not beeners, the Ostiabia was sunk at about 3 p.m. say his character and conduct we're good, lie found him perfectly honest and hard-working. enforced in respect of offices and other on the 27th instant, and the Navarin also
Re-examined by Mr. Morell, witness said there buildings, they were not dealing with is a receipt book, and that being initialled by de- the matter so much for the light of the hotel, was sunk. fendant would tell witness that the Sgo had been because the height of the hotel above other paid. Defendant's name is on that book, and houses would provide light for rooms; and, witness must bave noticed it. Whiness always moreover, the open space being in excess of used to see the shroff's books every day. There that required, the hotel would no doubt be are two books, one for entering the payment of sufficiently well lighted; and he did not raise figes in full, and one for proportionate payment, any objection to that part of the application. alter prisoners had served a portion of the sen the thought, however, the Board ought to con tence. Witness could not remember having sider not only the effect of the height of the reprimanded defendant at any particular time, building upon the hotel itself with special re- but he must have spoken to him sharply at ference to surface crowding, but its effect on times, though he did not remember his having neighbouring houses. done anything seriously wrung, but it would be
all the time.
Hon. Mr. Brewin seconded the resolution,
The Almar was observed, on the 27th instant, to be disabled and was in a sinking condition; but her final fate is yet unknown,“
CONDITION OF THE JAPANESE FLEET. Full particular regarding the injury to our ships are not yet to hand; but so far as I could ascertain none of them are seriously injured, all being still engaged in operation. Our full casualty list is not yet ascertained. Those of the first division are a little over
400,
Imperial Prince Yorihoto is in excellen
was slightly health and, Admiral Misu wounded on the 17th instant.
perhaps the building did not technically froot Li Lai Cheong, fifth clerk at the Magistracy, on Queen's Road, still the side facing on said he kept a record book of cases, and made Queen's Road was exactly the same length as his entries daily, in the forenoon, of the cases that facing l'edder Street As regards the decided the previous day. The entry of the paint of there not being sufficient house ac case in which the $50 was paid was made on commodation for Europeans in the Colony,
FURTHER RUSSIAN LOSSES CONFIRMED, the forenoon of the 5th of April. It is entered he did not think they should allow themselves is not enough money in China to properly 50 paid." Witness corrected himself and
To be led aside by that consideration..
The sixth report, received on the after- He did not know where they would find transact the business of the Empire, and what said he did aot think he entered it as "paid."
themselves landed if they decided not to press noon of the 30th instant, states that the low money there is does not go so far as it
Mr. Looker said he failed to find the entry, the improvement of sanitation in the Colony of the Ostiabia and Navarin is confirmed Witness said it was entered under the column, because of temporary inconvenience to the
ett fiae payable to treasurer," as "So. If inhabitants. Having refused, le as far as he The Sister Veliki is also definitely reported
recalled at a very full meeting of the Board, to the fine has been paid afterwards witness en-grant an application for a hotel higher than to have been sunk on the moming of the 8th ters it under the warrant number. When he four storeys in Kowloon, in a much more open inst made the entry referring to the $50 case, be locality than Queen's Road, he thought they knew the fine had been paid. He got his ip: should adhere to the principle they adopted formation from the endorsement on the case.
That was the case for the prosecution, Mr. Looker said he submitted that there was
to meet such denfand. The extensive building. operations on the Kowloon Peninsula justi- fies the assumption, and hence the beliei is almost universal that Hongkong's population must be provided for with 'suitable buildings. The allegation that a small hotel and a boardinghouse have re- cently been closed hardly supports the con- Lention that accommodation is already ..., 54.00 ample enough for our present require ought to 80 because of the inadequate means of communication and the extortionate The speaker did not mention rates of exchange, Banking business in 39.60 private hotels that have sprung up to China is hazardous at best, and when the
take the place of those closed. The
pressure of a castors like that surrounding two establishments in our immediate neigh the New Year comes it takes skilful manage bourhood appear to make up for the de- ment to take a concern going and at the same ficiency caused by the closing of the pre- time make money. The business of Chips
IN JAPAN mises to which he referred. If it is urged generally is subjected at all times to drains that one of those amalgamated hotels te and tolis, to discounts and exchange charges do case to go before a juty, as the prosecu ion places a former residential establishment it on the part of banks, which would not be to had not proved anything.
Tokio, May 30, 3.30 p. could also be said that the original Waverleylerated in other countries; and this trouble, as The case was adjourned until to-morrow, all the advantages accruing from bottling was replaced by its namesake. There are well as the financial distress which surrounds
been sic Ako sm
is a corner one, it is to be penalised and its Tour captured vessels ha a hundred and one reasons why a person's the Chinese New Year, will not be doge swaye
height limited in proportion to the narrowness brought into our naval ports on the done at home under the direct supervision establishment should be closed down, and it with until the Empire has a monetary system CAPT. Batt, of the Ocean Line steamer Ajax, of the lateral street. Corner houses being moro of the Growers and Distillers as compared is hardly fair to attribute it to inst, vir, Orel (battleship)
supply over the demand when a management
He moved that the application be granted. while Nicholai 7, (bauleship), chooses to give up business, probably after varieties of money impossible, and which will
them nie
The Director of Public Works (Hon. Mr. W. having amassed a comfortable competence allow the augmentation of the actual metallic during the time of the existence of his monetary volume in the sation with paper
Chatham) seconded, and the motion was carried by four votes to two business.
currency of a sost now impossible.
N.B.-All our Wines and Spirits are bottled at home, thereby ensuring to our Customers
to bottling done in China by Chicamen
at the service of Européan Firms.
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Hongkong, ayth December, 1904.
remember, was presented by the Tiar in recog gold cigarette case, which, as our readers will nition of services rendered to wounded men oa the Russian cruiser: Vari rg, after the battle eff: Chemulpo in February, 19941-
then t
The President drew attention to ous point. that with regard to the contention that the new. building would front Queen's Road, and that was that if the building had not extended along Pedder Street as far as Queen's Road no objection would apparently have been raised to its height. In other words, because a building
CAPTURED SHIPS
Senyarin (coast-defence ships) AT Surebo,